Perry Pickhardt, Department of Radiology, and Maureen Smith, Health Innovation Program, have received a $2.7 million grant supporting collaboration between their departments to investigate the dissemination of the technology developed by the UW Radiology team and the impact of this new technique on colorectal cancer screening. The following faculty members have been awarded a sabbatical …
The brains of people under anesthesia respond to stimuli as they do in the deepest part of sleep – lending credence to a developing theory of consciousness and suggesting a new method to assess loss of consciousness in conditions such as coma.
During the final week of winter break when there was very little vehicle and pedestrian traffic on Observatory Drive, Environmental Services staff took advantage of the lull and the relatively good weather to remove several dead, weak or broken trees along the top of Muir Woods.
The College of Letters & Science Committee on Academic Staff Issues (CASI) will host a brown-bag brainstorm session to discuss the challenges that academic staff professionals face when supervising other academic staff professionals.
UW–Madison has announced a change in online travel booking procedures.
State, university and UW Hospital and Clinics employees contributed generously to the 2009 Partners in Giving charity fundraising campaign in spite of the state of the economy, furloughs, layoffs and retirements.
The exciting new field of “contemplative neuroscience,” a Law School project that frees the wrongly convicted and the seasonal beauty of the Allen Centennial Gardens will be featured during the spring series of University Roundtable luncheon presentations.
Why did Viking settlements, seemingly well-suited to harsh northern environments, survive centuries of climate change in some places but fail in others?
In Stephanie Lind’s neighborhood, kids left high school to get married or to work, but Stephanie’s mom believed college was important.
Jan. 27, 2010
Despite growing up in a medical family whose dinner table talk often revolved around strange diseases and interesting bodily quirks, Julie Simons’ first love wasn’t biology. In high school, the UW–Madison mathematics graduate student became captivated by geometry. As an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, she majored in math and minored in statistics. And upon graduating, she did an internship in cryptography and code breaking.
Languages, literary fame, poetry, filmmaking and the supernatural are topics included in the programming lineup for the spring semester of the Year of the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Three years into the Administrative Process Redesign project, the campuswide initiative to create better business practices has built a track record of success and a stronger campus climate.
Editor’s note: The following series provides the history behind the naming of UW–Madison’s buildings.
This column features the We Conserve program and its work on campus. Learn more at http://www.conserve.wisc.edu.
Jan. 26, 2010
The long struggle to move the most versatile stem cells from the laboratory to the clinic got another boost with an $8.8 million contract award to the Waisman Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW-Madison and city police are urging a focus on personal safety in the wake of an armed robbery involving a UW-Madison student at around 7:40 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23.